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Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph.

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn't taste as sweet.

Recognition of the Genocide is the triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

Survival is triumph enough.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.

The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.